Puppies!

Oma's dog, Bella (we also call her Sophie, long story!), had four puppies early this morning. We went to see them after church. Rylee was instantly in love, of course. Ashlyn was excited too, but didn't show it as much! I have a lot more pictures, but I'm having a hard time uploading pictures today, so I'll have to do the rest later.

Ashlyn on the Tramp

The last time I took pictures of the girls jumping, there weren't very many of Ashlyn because she had just woken up from her nap and not too into jumping. But a few days ago she insisted on jumping- even though it was kind of cold and very windy. So I took a few pictures. She jumps much better when she's by herself anyway- she gets a little nervous when Rylee jumps too. She doesn't like to get bounced around. Her hair was a little crazy- it had been braided the day before and she had been playing all day.

Easter Dresses

These were going to be the girls' Easter dresses. But we are going to Cosette's baby blessing (Matt's sister, Heidi's, baby) next week in Provo. So I thought they could wear them today. And Oma gave them matching dresses yesterday that they can wear on Easter. So I had to take pictures in these anyway. I think I'm going to try again, though. I still haven't figured out my camera from Christmas and I'm not happy with how they turned out.

Jump Rope

Yesterday was a very windy day (I know, so unusual for Idaho, huh!!!) so Rylee and I decided to just play in the garage. I was trying to teach her to jump rope. She couldn't quite get it on her own, but when I tied the rope to something and turned the rope while she jumped, she did it! I told her when to jump and she jumped a few times. She was very excited! We'll keep practicing.

The Splits

"Look, Mom!"
She doesn't get her flexibility from me!

ABC's

I bought a Mr. Potato Head handwriting book at the dollar store a while ago. We started out doing two letters a day and then we forgot about it for a while, but Rylee just finished it! She's starting to recognize more of the letters and associate some letters to sounds. At the end of the book was a Mr. Potato Head that you can cut out and play with the different parts. So she was excited about that- that was her motivation towards the end. Now I guess we'll work on the other workbooks I bought- one with numbers and counting and another letter one that is writing letters and princess words. Good job, Rylee!!!

Finally!

So we finally had a nice day! It would have been a little better without the wind, but I can't complain. And I went a little picture crazy today- I took tons of pictures and I have such a hard time choosing just a few, so here are a lot of pictures from today. You can tell from the smiles of the girls' faces just how excited they were to play outside, especially Rylee's! We played at our house and at Oma's house and the girls got to play with their cousin, Jerika. We had such a fun day- too bad it was the last day of spring break! Better late than never, right?!?

She definitely doesn't get her love of dogs from me!